Limpopo, I don't think any of us are naive enough to think anything will come to us on a plate - we would still need licences and IRs and neither grow on trees apparently
I still hope that we can retaina big chunk of SAR in the military and not the token gesture that is being suggested at the moment.
As for resiting the bases, none of the competing contractors wants that as it means more outlay to set up a new operation than to assume control of an existing one. The SARH process has looked at it and appears to have come to the conclusion that unless the goalposts are moved (increase response time or similar change of criteria) there is no point in moving the bases.
As ever it will be decided by those who write the jobspec/contract.